GeorgeH that is the best phrase I've heard all year 'I shouldn't have been so brief.....'. Would you mind awefully if I borrowed it?

I hadn't realised about the broad speakers who sing in standard. Wow. Neither had I realised that there were a bunch of Americans with faux-brit accents - I thought it was all the other way round. That will keep me amused all day now.

I took my daughter to task the other day for singing in an exaggerated Americal drawl. She was singing me a song she had just written (she's 8 & this was the best yet) and I said 'Well that's fine, but can't you do it in your own English accent?'. She gave me one of her looks and said 'Well yes mummy I could, but it's better this way'. SO there's me who's all in favour of using whatever feels right, and I'm acting like the bleeding voice police. Motherhood often brings out the hypocrite in me!

BTW. Anyone caught themselves doing faux-Yorkshire a la Rusby/Carthy (I don't mean they are faux of course)? Count me in as guilty of this one..... (not that it is a bad thing of course).

Kris(who is having a paranoid day and keeps qualifying things in brackets (know what I mean?)).